[MERGE] bzr rm should delete the working file (Bug #82602)

[Marius Kruger]

On 2/16/07, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
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> Marius Kruger wrote:
> > in this today's the bundle:
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> >       ``bzr remove`` and ``bzr rm`` will now remove the working file.
> >       This has been done for consistency with svn and the unix rm
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> >       The old ``remove`` behaviour has been retained in the new command
> >       ``bzr unversion``, which will just stop versioning the file,
> >       but not delete it.
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> As I noted in that bug, I think it's a good idea for 'rm' to unlink
> files, but I don't think we should change the behaviour of 'remove'.


Sorry I did not see your note.

Remove is a good choice for the "unversion" command because
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> 1. People are already using it that way


they use 'rm' that way too

2. It is an antonym of "add".

this makes sense,
but IMHO if we are giving rm and remove different meanings,
we are opening the door to confusion and chaos.
I'm not totally against it, but it looks too confusing to me.

Also, it would make sense for "rmdir" to be an alias of "rm".

will do that
I think 'del' and 'delete' would also be good aliases of 'rm'


regards
maius

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